Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Pen of the Day

Some days, I try to stick with a pen or two rather than reaching into the pen cup for a new option every 5 minutes. When I reach in the pen cup I can get EASILY distracted by a fountain pen that needs cleaning or spend 4 minutes sad with the pen choice that I made. So grabbing a pen and sticking with it helps keep me focused a bit (P.C.P... Pen Choice Problems.) So, this morning I reached in, grabbed an old Pilot Precise V5 Extra fine and was amazed that around noon eastern, I was still pretty happy with my choice.

When I popped over to Jetpens and Amazon and saw that they still sell these. Pretty much with the same label. By the way, Jetpens tells me that this is made from 89.2% recycled material and refills are available (so, why do I own so many of these?)

There's some ink creep on that needlepoint. (said no cool guy ever.) I probably have a dozen or so of these kicking around but I usually reach for the smaller points (.38 or .44) but for some reason, I can still get away with this in my notebooks and am happy with the dark ink and for me it dries fast enough.

Look, I get it, I know around 12:30 I will once again reach over into this mess (below) and forget about the V5 in a heartbeat. But, I still like this pen.

I should go through this

Here's where my hand goes by instinct whenever I need to write something. I only stab myself with the dip pen 3 or 4 times a day.

The irony here is thick. (or it's not) Anyway, I might do this again tomorrow. I miss you crazy people and thanks for all the readers that still ping me. You guys rock.